This paper reports on a sixteen-sector five asset general equilibrium tax model of the UK economy benchmarked to the 1995 data set received from the Inland Revenue. We use this model to access the impacts o capital income taxes, labour income taxes, indirect taxes, and tariffs.

This paper formulates a model of m-firm complementary monopoly under the assumption of linear demand, constant long-run marginal cost and constant propositions.

This paper derives a general m-firm model of conplementary monopoly. A measure of deadweight welfare loss is then constructed under the simplifying assumptions of linear demand, constant long-run marginal costs, symmetry and constant proportions.

The purpose of this paper is to provide reasonable microfoundation to justify the concept of a conjectural valuations equilibrium which is often used in the literature on the private provision of public goods by incorporating an explicit dynamic process of learning with the help of the...

A volume of recent experimental evidence suggests that individual preferences may not be independent of the consumer's vantage point. In particular agents may suffer from loss aversion (also known as the endowment effect and status quo bias). Allocations which appear desirable ex ante may...

The objective of the study was to empirically test a reciprocal (bi-directional) ,odel of job satisfaction and life satisfaction while controlling for some social demographic variables. 846 employees working in 35 car dealerships in Northern Quebec (57% response rate) were surveyed. The multiple...

The objective of this paper is to analyse how different countries approach the objective of equity in the provision of long-term care. Explicitly or implicitly, welfare state definitions and social policy definitions include notions such as equity, justice or equality, theyr are even at the core...

The paper examines the gender relations upsheld by the Italian welfare state, and points out that the reforms of cash transfer programs, which took place after 1992, reinforce the "male -breadwinner/female -housekeeper" model.